Chandigarh Administration signs MoU with
Rotary Club Chandigarh to set up Health Education Center
National Tele24 News
Chandigarh
Chandigarh
Administration and Rotary Club of Chandigarh today signed a Memorandum of
Understanding for setting up a Health Education Centre in the City. The MoU was
signed by Education Secretary Sh. B.L. Sharma representing Chandigarh
Administration and President of Rotary Club, Sh. A.P Singh Dhiman in the
presence of Sh. V.P. Singh Badnore, Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator,
U.T Chandigarh, Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, U.T
Chandigarh, Sh. Sanjay Beniwal, IPS, DGP, Chandigarh Police, Sh. Ajoy Kumar
Sinha, IAS, Finance Secretary, Sh. Rubinderjit Singh Brar, PCS, Director School
Education, Sh. Rajendra K. Saboo former president of Rotary International and
members of Chandigarh Rotary Club. The Rotary Club in association with another
world-renowned US-based, Mc Millen Health Centre, an
independent NGO located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, shall equip it with hi-tech
gadgets, mannequins, models, teaching aides and expertise. The President of
Rotary International Rajendra K. Saboo, who had conceived the project, informed
that this state-of-the-art Health Education Centre is meant to educate school students about fundamentals of
Medical Science, Human Physiology, and would also serve as Training Centre to
impart training to master trainers as well as teachers. Chandigarh
Administration has decided to set up the Centre in Government Model High
School, Sector-22C, in the first phase and later a site would be identified by
a committee comprising representatives of the Engineering, Architecture &
Education department. It would also work as centre of excellence in providing
basic Medical Education, Health Check-up and Training, and would be managed by
a team of Administrative staff, team of doctors and experts under a society
which shall have Adviser to the Administrator as Chairman having Secretaries of
Health, Finance and Education department of the Chandigarh Administration as
members along with various other members from various departments and two
members of the Rotary Club.Commenting during the occasion, Sh. Badnore lauded
Rotary’s endeavours for this unique and first project in the country to be
setup in the city, and said that this is a new beginning and Administration
would like to partner with Rotary Club Chandigarh for its various other
initiatives as well.
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